JPOthmer

Citizen of Tralfamadore. Author of The Futurist, Holy Water, AdLand.

[JPOthmer @James_Othmer]

New home of @JamesPOthmer (2008-21). Now 23% Less Bitter! Apparently @FourseasonsTotalLandscaping Twitter sidehustle did not sit well with the Kremlin.

[JPOthmer @James_Othmer]

@Pete194Peter @JoeJersey10 I’m sticking to 1969. Swoboda was a poor fielder & did make the play of his life. Agee made 2 great plays & Cleon Jones had a highlight reel catch, too. Boog Powell on the other hand made 2 Es on 1 play, costing the O’s game 5. One team rose to the challenge, one did not

[JPOthmer @James_Othmer]

@Pete194Peter @JoeJersey10 O’s batted .146 in that series and lost in 5. Making plays and pitching isn’t luck. Mets bullpen was perfect in series. Seaver’s 3.00 was worst on the team. Bigger names on O’s, sure, but Hodges was at the forefront of platooning and did it well at multiple positions.

[JPOthmer @James_Othmer]

@MLBPipeline @Mets @SyracuseMets 4 walks, 4 hits and 91 pitches in less than five. The stuff won’t play in AAA or MLB untill he learns to control it.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

If Trump cared about protecting free and fair elections, he wouldn't have fired the remaining members of the bipartisan election commission that helps state and local officials run smooth elections and certify voting equipment.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

People are traveling, gathering together, barbecuing, celebrating the 250th anniversary of this nation in various ways. And then we have this…

An American service member using his right to free speech, guaranteed in our nation’s constitution. A right given to all of us every day. Regardless of your political affiliation, read or watch Major Jason Watson’s full statement. It’s powerful. He has served and is serving. He is speaking up and out, and for that he was arrested.

Free speech, freedom of religion, a free press, the freedom to vote for who you choose, the freedom to love who you choose. These are all things we celebrate on our nation’s birthday. They are what makes us a democracy, among many other things. So as you gather, as you grill, as you plan your day, think of Major Watson, think of the freedoms you hold dear, and don’t just celebrate them, but make sure generations to come will have these rights as well! 🇺🇸

[Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer]

As Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again. Read and share my letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. https://t.co/g8bFrhZ9Dg

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Some thoughts on the new Epstein Files revelations:

I’ve now read everything that’s come out from the new Haberman and Swan book, and the thing I keep coming back to is the Situation Room. They held multiple meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein files. That room is for war. It’s for national security emergencies. It is not for figuring out how to spin a scandal you’re telling the country is a hoax.

While the President was deflecting or calling this old news, his own Vice President and Chief of Staff were huddled in the most leak-proof room in America because they knew how bad it really was.

You don’t take a nothingburger to the Situation Room.

And I have to be honest, reading all this brings back a lot of frustration about what happened in the House of Representatives. I sat there and watched Mike Johnson send the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing these files. I watched him refuse to swear in a duly elected colleague for months just to stall the discharge petition. Month after month of excuses, arm twisting, and procedural games, all to keep this information from the public. We only got the files because survivors, families, and a handful of members in both parties simply refused to let it go.

So when people ask me why I talk so much about transparency and accountability, this is why. The truth eventually comes out. It always does.

The only question is whether your leaders helped reveal it or helped bury it.

Everyone who voted to keep these files hidden should have to answer for that.

Finally, notice what’s missing from all of this is any sign that Trump’s DOJ will actually investigate the powerful men named in these files.

Draw your own conclusions about why a Justice Department run by the President’s former defense lawyers might not be eager to pull that thread.

[JPOthmer @James_Othmer]

@Acyn @MeidasTouch No notes.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Mike Lawler’s constituents need healthcare, but all @repmikelawler wants is to make sure Trump gets his ballroom. In fact, he thought it was so important that he had to record that message from his car.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: CBS reportedly refused to air Stephen Colbert’s interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico after pressure tied to Trump’s FCC.

Let that sink in.

A network news giant backing down because a president doesn’t like the politics.

Trump isn’t afraid of “fake news.” He’s afraid of losing Texas.

Here is the full 14 minutes for you to see what they tried to censor.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

[JPOthmer @James_Othmer]

@WexlerRules @Mets @DSzymborski Match the season to the 19th-century Russian novel. 1993: Dead Souls; 1986: War and Peace; 1987: Crime & Punishment; The Idiot? Diary of a Madman???

[JPOthmer @James_Othmer]

@mikemayer22 Orosco-esque

[JPOthmer @James_Othmer]

@nxthompson The Star Tribune has also been brave and extraordinarily valuable in its coverage; significant in a week in which Bezos is gutting The Washington Post.

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

An extraordinary paragraph. https://t.co/4FH7q8XzSU

[Mark Bittman @bittman]

This is what I sent to Mike Lawler, R, NY-17 (my home district:

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

[The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas @AnandWrites]

NEW: I close-read the mountain of Epstein emails and tried to distill what they reveal about how the elite operate.

Bottom line: It’s no accident that when he needed friends to rehabilitate him, he chose a power elite practiced at disregarding pain.

https://t.co/7VEP1470Pd

[JPOthmer @James_Othmer]

@maddenifico Tim Cuck

[Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog]

Sally Jenkins's goodbye note is, like, better than anything I have ever written.